Practice took place indoors today due to the rain -- the position players worked out at Kadena while the pitchers worked out at Ginowan. Takao Obana spent the day watching the Ichi-gun pitchers in the morning and the Ni-gun pitchers in the afternoon.

Naoyuki Shimizu was throwing his shuto to the inside corners against right-handed batters during situational BP yesterday. At one point, Shimizu also managed to use his shuto to get a batter to ground into a double play. It can sometimes be difficult for pitchers to throw pitches to the inside corner against players on their own team, but it seems Shimizu doesn't have too much of a problem with it because he can ask his teammates for feedback on his pitches. He also said that he considered his shuto to be his second best pitch behind his fastball.

Shimizu ended up throwing 21 pitches to 6 batters; he did not give up any hits and walked 1.